Category: Writing

NaNoWriMo came to end, and by November 30 I wrote only 36 000 words. Failure? No. As I said before, I decided to make myself fail this year (after winning three years in a row). The reason was to make myself less obsessed with goals and to kill my inner …

NaNoWriMo is a National November Writing Month. It brings thousands of writers and wannabe writers together in their love for writing—and in a hope to finish the damn book that had been sitting inside for years. It began in 1999, almost twenty years ago. I even remember that I’ve heard …

One of the books I’ve read recently is The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking by Oliver Burkeman. It’s not about writing at all, but it gave me some ideas about setting and keeping writing goals — the thing that I often struggle with. The problem with …

Last month I returned to writing… at least for some time. For about 2/3 of September I kept the pace of 500 words/day on weekdays, the goal I established for myself before, and even outpaced it. I was determined to keep it to the end of the month. My resolution …

The school part is not about me, but about my kid who has just started a new school year. It means that I have time for myself in the mornings and can start writing again. I confess I missed it—summers feel too long in this respect. And mind you, in …

Nothing much to report, at least about writing. I’m plodding slowly, doing a bit here and a bit there. To be fair, my back problems and jet-lag conspired against me and made some of the days miserable. With both of them waning, I hope to have more to report the …

What’s wrong It’s been a couple of days since I came back from the vacation, and today I hoped to go back to writing. Unfortunately, jet-lag decided to hit me with all its force, so I spent too much time sleeping or feeling way too sleepy. On the bright side …

Where Do You Get Your Ideas From? While unpacking my stuff, I found some of my old notebooks filled with ideas, notes, and drafts. As already happened before, I discovered that I wrote and even finished more than I thought. Also, some ideas I had still seem worth exploring. Of …

Daily Writing June 27, 2018 Too busy moving and unpacking and settling to write. I know people can write in such circumstances, but I’m not one of them. I’m a low-energy person and instability drains me too much. It doesn’t help that getting used to a new place disrupts my …

Writing I spent most of the time packing and moving, so these last three days were far from productive. Right now I feel not only tired after carrying heavy stuff but knocked out of normal life. Like one of our cats, who has been hiding in any corner of the …